The Sun. — London, England, 1809-03-06 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. 44,► We intended to give a continuation of the valuable Ar.. tide on IhtoNx ?Aar s's Campaign in Italy this day, but the influx of FOre`ign News prevents us. ' The Letter from Ayr loos, respecting the Irish Catholics, J . contains many good remarki ; but we have not main, nor dd we think: the subject propet for discusSion at present. It is lett for him at our (Mee. MAILS. Alm tvsb—t. He Upland, 2 Dublin. Du z-7 Gotteabu rei t s Malta, I Dublin. 3 ,Waterford. , ,• PRICE OF STOCKS ?NIA DAY AT TWKLVI. O'CLOCK. Consols - . . • • 40 671 THE SUN. „sotaaa stuss otcsitts FALSUI4 4UDIAT ? L 0 ND 0 N, MONDAY, MARC,I4 6, 1809. It is stated in some of the late accounts received from the North, that, during the continuance of the late frost, the King of Denmark received ore from BUONAPARTE to attempt the Invasion of Sweden, by marching across the Sound ; and it is added, that sin army.of 24,000 Danes, and 16,cm Polish auxi liaries, ,were assembled for that purpose ; but, in 6nsequence of the sudden thaw, the Expedition was abandoned. We believe that some preparations were made in Zealand for an Expedition across the Sound, but certainly nothing like a forCe of 40,000 men was colleted. We are this day enabled to lay before our Readers an immense mass of foreign intelligence, which we have extra ted from Drench Papers to the 25th tilt. which reached, town last night,, and Ilamburgh Journals, to the 28th uh. which we received this morning.:. The length of our, extraas prevents us from commenting at any length upon them. There seems to be now very little doubt that hos tilities are on the point. of commencing between France and Austria. The French troopS . in Ger many are all in motion, and reinforcements' are airching from' the North of Italy to join them. .Austria, on the other hand, is making the utmost exertions to meet the contlo. It is said, and it would give us the most sincere' satisfaction to find it continued, that the Emperor of Russia has mani fisted the•most friendly disposition towards the £m peror of Austria, and that it is probable that the friendly tel.,tions between Russia And France are likely , to oe broken off. Thegreates4 exertions are making to it out a fermi deble naval t rce iu Flushing and Antwerp, and it is stated that a Fleet of i s sail will be ready •to sail Gum these ports in the Spring.' This Fleet is to be. joined by a Russian Squadron, and some formidable naval , ,caup,de-main attempted against this century. , The trench Papers are not very impatient. The 114oniteur contains some very angry striaures upon the Thanks.. voted by the British Parliament to the Officers wh ) served in Portugal. The 'Powerful Man of War and The IVerfoYd East India Ship, from Bombay, arrived at 'the Cape the 9th December last. The following. Ships, outward bound, which sailed from Portsmouth the 17th Septenther last , were, on the 30th Nov. in Lit. :35. 05. S. Lon. D. 30. W. viz. Walll,4mstovi, Tottenham, General Stuart, Ocean, Dc vaynoo, Lushington, and Unioll. Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, Princesses Au- GUM, *MIA, AKELIA,.and MARY, accompanied by bitty ELY, General Frirzuor, and Colonel DEs zaow, rode to St. George's Chapel, and heard a ser mon preached by the Hon. and Rev. Dr. LEGGE, the Dean,.from St. Matthew, ad chapter,and Bth verse=-- " Bring forth therefore fruits Meet for repentance." They afterwards returned to the Palace. • By intelligence from the Cape of 'Good Hope, of the date of the 2 7th'December last, 'we learn, that an Eiist Indid Fleet has arrived there, under the con soy of his Majesty's Ship Powerful, Captain JOHN.• STONE. . We learn also, that some French cruizers • wore underso.nod to be in that quarter, and that all the ships of war on the station had put to sea in pur suit of them. • On Saturday, at twenty minutes past threeceelock, the Boyd Oak, the finest model of any 74.,,in the 'Brit ish Navy, was launched from Mr. Du DMAN'S )•ard at Pepttied. She had been twelve months on the stocks, and was the last of ten contrasted for by Mr. DunmAN in the administration of Lord MEL.. VILLE ; her burden is 1700 taps. Gen6'al SHERBROOKE'S Expedition sailed on the 2.51 h ult. with a tine breeze, from the Cove of Cork for Spain, under convoy or the Lis and the Nide. It has been erroneonsly.ststed in the public Prints that the estate presented by the PRINCE ot . the Blt A 211A .to Sir Stt)N;. - ,y Ssturit, is a, small tenement, with merely two roorns. Nye liay.e the authority of a (.i.lnleinan who has traversed over the'place, to say, thit it k a considerable,extent of landed pro rqty, in a beautiful situation, and in all respths Woitny the accepta'nee of the gallant Officer. Tupfu ! , ! s v,A.Rcu Frigate'has captured tl4ruc Yost:ls, trent ti ordeauxto Nor Wtly, Wi;i) salt—One of them iy arrived at Scilly, and re ports, that there Were no less than 250 panish Ships qtr Lourdequic., ‘yilen, the. sailea, all at which have heel% set'atr liberty - by the French, 'and were en the point of hgtikillg north-about, ter the Baltic. HA MB PAPERS . UIiatit Bi► Rs tar THE ELBE, FEB. Hamburgh Exchange resounds with rumours respeaing au im mediate rupture hbtween Austria and,France,found ed on a variety of,private letters received by eminent mercantile houses from those countries. The abusive and insulting paraoraphs, and the threats against the Austrian Emperor with which most 'of the French Journals abound, seem to give additional credit to these reports, and their truth appears to be almost sanctioned by the intelligence from Paris, of NA iot.toN's sudden return, and his intended speedy departure for S!riribtirgh, where a palace .in that • place is fitting op, with the utmost haste, for his reception. Some French military men, in the North of Germany, also make no scruple in pub licly aWning. that war between the Austrians and their Emperor is inevitable. In this case, all the contingents of the Rhenish Confederation, are to take the field; and private accounts from Munich, of the 26th ult. state, that great preparations are making in all the arsenals of the kingdom of Bava ria : but in the capital, and some of the most emi nent cities of that country, the idea of a new war had become yery unpopular among the people. . The army of the Duke of Auerstadt is to be iou mediately increased to 100,000 men. The Danes have celebrated their King's birth day with great festivity in Altona and other parts of the kingdom. In the latter place the Prince of Ponte Corvo was invited, but on the day 'of going be re ceived, -per estafette, the news of the death of his `mother, and on this account did not gir: to the sumptuous banquet, to which every housekeeper of property in Altona was obliged to furnish 10 dollars out of his own pocket. Many songs were sung on these occasions, full of the most insulting abuse against ,Great Britain, her Government, and the British Na tion in general. Upon the whole, in this respea, the Danes increase lately in impudence and effron tery, and every dispassionate observer is astonished at the forbearance of England against an Island which she could crush at one fiat. The thaW is now general, and for these two days nothing could pass the 'Elbe. The Political Joui tor.lanuary containg, amongst others, the following article EXTRACT Or A LETTER FROM LEIPZIC, JAN. 12 . - • • • " The . ,tnauifold conjedures and interpretations which the journey of their Prussian Majesties has ac., casioned among' the politicians, will not have re maineci unknown. to you, but how unfounded they ate you will see by the . - subjoined circular letter, whi c h I . saw, and which the Pr6sian Monarch sent, in the French, langulge to his Ambassadors abroad." , • Circular Letter of the K NG ofP`ayssc4 to his Ambassadors in Foreign Countries, 'rho Emperor of Russia, 'on his l a t e j ourne y through this city, invited me, in the most urgent and friendly manner, •to visit him, with my spotthe the Queen, in St. lletersburgh, before I should leave ,these parts, and the invitation having heed lately .re peated, by a leiter in his own handwriting, which this Monarch , had the kindness to. write me on this, subject. r • However much 1 may long to return to my territories, after so long and .a. painful an absence, still I should find it a hard. matter to wave the very obliging proposal of my illnstrions friend, who appeared four times-successively at my court, and continues to repeat how much pleasure it would give him to see us at his own. I,have ther e f ore d e , tertnined on a journey, to which every thing invites me—the present greater proximity distances, the the commodiousness of the roads int winter, an oiq close conneftion, and, above all, an entire co'inci. deuce of systems, which hav4 been 614 more ce mented, On one side by the meeting of the two EM . - perors, in ,Erforth, and on other by my 'definitive arrangements with France, which I, ,a, short time ago, made. ‘.‘ 1 intend to set. out upon the' journey towards the latter days of the present month, I. shall s i horten it as much as possible, and after my return from St. Petersburgh to Konigsberg, repair immediately to Berlin. During my short absence busines's shall be transacted here agreeable to the instru6ions which I shall give to my. Ministry, and you shall continually receive my orders, by the Minister for Foreign AI. fairs. ‘c If, against every expetation, this journey should seem to need an explauation at the place where you are, and it any political design, or other foreign views, should be attached to it, you will take care to explain yourself on this bead, agreeable to what has been said above, and to state this journey to be what it really is, merely a journey of courtesy, convenience, and friendship, which neither can nor ought to excite the 'notice of any body. ' FReDEOCK. WILLIAM." " IConigsburgh, Dec. sy, Braraw, FEE. 4.,0ur itegiments have received their new names, 'which they are to bear in future. Besides them, there are 'companies of invalids; and men exempt from service. All the Regiments, whether infantry or cavalry, in consequence of the small force of our army, have no furloughs, but are on active duty. In future they are to have no fixed garrison places, hut change from time to time. A regiment of infantry consists of half a battalion, or two companies of grenadiers and eight of fusi. leers s each company consists of 135 men. A regiment of horse consists of four companies, of 125 men each. l'he artillery .consists of three brigades, of twelve companies each, of foot, and three companies of horse artillery. According to a Royal . Edia of the 27th ult. all the re-occupied fortresses arc to be repaired and sup plied with provisions, particularly Neiss and Span dau. The new Council of State is incessantly occu pied in rewiring the finances, •and the new loan of 100,09 of dollars is one of its first objects. VIENNA ; JAN. 23.—0 n Occasion of the splendid fete given yesterday at Court, the French Ambassa dor, in the ibsenai of the Russian' one, presented - seueral , Cavaliers to their, Majesties, such as General WissruEF,...lbrmerly Ambassador at Lisbon, and WEDROSKY, the Chamberlain, &c. Our regiments of cavalry hart/ been supplied with a great number of horses to re-mount them.- FEB ItU Alt Y 2.—For some days past the exchange of couriers between 'c'ienna and Pat is have been very b:kk. They speak of a meeting of two great So , veseigns at Munich. 7 ( Corresponden t ) Agreeably to a private letter from Venice, of the 18th tilt. the rumour of a camp of exercise being about to,be established in the neighbourhood of that city is confirmed. A number,of Danish seamen are arrived at Augs burg, whoHreturn via Hanibtargh to their own country. BRVSSBLS, Fan. 10.—The fleet at Flushing lies in the inner harbour, sufficiently proteaed by a numerousartillery: It consists of 12 sail of the line and a considerable number of c'lltters, brigs, goclettes, loggers, gun-boats, &c. It will get fresh rein forcemints in the spring,. as the six ships of eighty guns will then he ready to join them from Antwerp, which they were building with great affinity in 1805, so that theFlushint fleet will be a' very for midable one; • Private advice from France continne to assure ni, that a great nlaritime coup de main is to be made by the French Fleet in Flushing in the coarse of next Spring, when, as theSe7reports state, a junClion between the Russian 'and French marines with the small armlinenti of Denmark, is to be effeaed for the purpose of executing a settled plan of operations of a naval and military campaign, the ohjell .of which, hoWever secretly concealed, may however be guessed: More than 5000 seamen - from the Hans Towns, Denmark, the coasts of Pomerania, and the Baltic have been inlistedin the Flushing Fleet of the French marine, to; serve in this enterprize, All the Continental Journals abound with shock ing details of the` ravages occasioned by inunda, tions,.froth Proshurgh, in. Hungary, as far as Amster darn:—To mention the whole of these catastrophes would fill a volume. HAatauttou, Fen. 22.—The Vienna Court Ga zette, of the t tth Instant, mentions, that Peace has been concluded between England and the Porte. MILAN, Fun. 8.—,-Wehave received the pleasing intelligence froth Paris, that his Majesty the Empe rOr and King, NAPOLEON, will honour this city with his presence, perhaps as early 'as the present month. :VIENNA, FEB. 1 I .—..MOLIS. VON FASSLINDBR has beets appointed Commissary-General of the Austrian arMy. General NEUR is gone to &pun with the Archduke FERDINAND. Iu general all the Austrian Generals who had met in this city have returned to their respe6live posts. ULM, FElt. the beginning Of heitmonth we expe6t the' first diviiion of the fine corps of Ou dinot that has, been cantoned the p6ghbf,::7!l. of Frankfort. A Staff Officer of the"Kitigil itr.)yn! Regiment of. Light Horse goes to meet this column irts tar as Geislingen to conduct them 'to Augsburg. den. OuntNor's whole corps will, it is said, occupy the tract of country between Augsburg!) and Ingol stadt. , The King of Bavaria has called in all the soldiers who were absent on ftirlou4h, and 14,000 recruits are to be itninediately raised to er-enforce it. One di vision is to be stationed in the Tyrol, the 'others. in the Upper Palatinate. BANKS 01' THE ELBE, Fan. 26:—NINE O'CLOCK., P. this very hour neither the Austrian'nor Russian posts have arrived, which causes much impatience and anxiety. Among the rumours circulated in well-informed circles this evening is that of the French Minister having received dispatches from Poland of great importance, the purport of which is chiefly said to bee change in, the political sentiments of the Court of St. Peters. burgh, which is said to interest itself in a most lively tnanner in favour of the 4tuperor FaANcis. It is expeeed that Russia, under certain circum stances, rnay feel herself (bliged to s eSi)ouse'the cause •of Austria, and break off her friendly •conneetioas with France. • • • • Some private letters from Moldavia state; that MUETAPHA BARIACTRU is not dead, but forming' great plans. . If affairs on the Continent continue to weAri as warlike an appearance as they do at present, the King and Qui - len of PRUSSIA will not, it is said, fix their residence in Berlin. • BONAPARTE Will, it is said, direst the operations on the side of Italy and ou,that of Germany, th© Duke of AVERSTADT, with a French a rmy of 100,000 French troops, assisted by the troops of the Confe deration of the Rhine. The subscription instituted in Glasgow for raising a monument, in honour of the late General Moons, already amounts to 30001. Un Thursday Miss COURTENkY, daughter of till late. Bishop of EXETER, was introdnced to her MA' ZESTY, at ibe Drawing-room, upon her being ap pointed a Maid of Honour to her MAJESTY, in the room of the late Miss BEAUCLERK. • On Saturday Mr. HASE, frotii the tint, 'ard notice at the Stock Exchange, that the CumicaLtme of the Excusausa would, this day, propose, in Parlia ment, to fund eight millions of Exchequer BiN. Mr. HASS at the same time communicated the fol lowing letter on the subjeB from the CUANaELLOR 'of the Ex CHEQUER to the Governors of the Bank ' Gentlemen---t think it proper to apprize you, that it is my intention to-submit to Parliament', early in the next week; a proposition for,the funding Ex' chequer Bills, charged in the aids of I HOB and 1809, to the amount of 3,000,0001 i upon the following, terms :--- The holders of such Exchequer Bills to bane the option of receiving, for every t 001. of the Bills they may wish to subscribe, either tool. hs, .Navy 5 'per Cents. Stock, the interest whereof to corn" thence from the 'sth' of January:l:lst ;, or 811: 9 6, Navy 5 per Cent. Stock, and 201. 4s. 4 per Cent; interest to commence from thu sth day of April next; the option to be - declined at'tlie time of sub• scribing the Bills. It may at the same time be pro per to inform you, in the event of the 8,000,0001. being so subscribed to be funded, it is . not my inten tion to propose any other addition to the 5 per . Cent. Fund in the present Session of Parliament, or to contra& for such further surn.as it may be requisitd to raise by way of loan, for the service of the year, sooner than the middle of April - next. In the evont,, of the above proposition receiving the sant-lion of Parliament,- public notice for rece:ving t h e subscriP flops will be givers ' . In tnean - .ime f rrritiest Y ‘ " will communicate the cont e nts of this fetter."' , publicL....4, have the - honour to hi", Stn. I( § reNcsit p olcavAL• intended Yesterday the cattle and dates for the prizes annually given by triotic Nobleman, Lord - Somerville, began to of at Air. Sadler's Reposi t ory Ya r d, i n •G o S W ell-stre e ; preparatory to the ; Exhibition, Which ope ns tu morning, and will c vn ti uue until the dinner give ll by his Lordship to his numerous friends at Freetw . . sons Tavern to-m or row a f t e rnoon . The li v e staN which arrived at the yard before dusk yowl evening, were, two Devon. oxen, the proPortY ° his grace the Duke of Bedford ; two „Devon 0 011 belonging to LOrd Somerville ; two Devon oxen sent in by Mr. Waters ; two Devon oxen sent hY. Mr, Martin Webber; and two Devon oleo by I% ',! r : Henry King, Jun. ; a pair of Hereford oxen v i e „- M l.° n r g : fi lg ud to son db u; Earl Of Xr ee . n P i ea i s n ley tw ; o t‘ s v c o o d te it h to o b x y en lr. Bridgwater sent five ewe hogs; a pen cons ft is tin g:,' live ewe hogs belonging .to Mr. &shy 3 mve ° hogs the.property of Lord Gage; Mr.. Boyce- five ditto ; Mr. Western two pens, each containing 6 " ewe hogs - ; • his Grace the Doke of Bedford five fat wethtsrs; Mr. Cartwright 'five tit wethers; Warren's ten fat wethers. Mr. Birbeck two pen s ' each containing five half bred Merinos ; H Y: ward sent a Suffolk pig; Mr. Western an Essex P' , ' Mr. Warren a pi g ten weeks old, a n d M r . Thomas 7 Collins a fat pig. On Friday night last, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a fire was discovered at the south-west, ~, °" gle of the great .qua d rang l e of Chr i st C hurc h. videntially the niglv was calm,., and the fire w as ' over,entne at seven o'clock on Saturday morning , by thejoint exertion s o f t he Members of the Univer sity, and the other inhabitants Of Oxford., l b° house of Doctor Wttere, Regius' Professor of L ' e ; brew, is destroyed, and the ravage extended to sOm. distance front the south- west athae, towards, t il ! Halkon one side, and Ott the other towards th o TOWer of the Great Gate, neither of 'which, Ito" ever, are injured. No life was. lost, nor was one siad ril in a g t : ri a n n !ll l i p lt p l a rt ren i t i l l y e. ti C n il d li a rfi tna o g u e i d e t r . dful At hve o'clock on Saturday morning 5, fire brokeout at the house of Mr. Patridge, aP w uj . ch • Mount-street,,. Gresvenor-square, hilrets cun- .H , entire of th e, h ouse n l ess tbanlst, ii‘)...: The parish engine wastheft that arrived; and aa soon as water was procu lo en 1 played with g re at e ff ect f or the preservation nr , t i o adjoining houses, which fortately escaped firstt imperiding Barnes. It is supposed that the fire l broke . out in the kitch e n, through going clo thes catching fire, whieh the Maid had put to air on, . i clothes ho rse . talk Last Saturday, at tw e lve o 'clock, a chimney,•—; fire at Lord CnAßLas'zbLE's house in Grosven.n:.; squar e , which bona, fUrionsly for some time , P . l „ was fortunately got under without committing further injury.—The same day. the Nag's Bead pub . lie-house caught fire, but was soon got under out much damage. ave La Yesterd ay nlbeth.ws lakti,ern which,o n,. a i i fi l re t hebrockoeu out r ; ea at t entirely consumed it, and did some little damage tv the tw o adjbi n ing h o us e s. The cause of the tire Is not known, but it commenced while the tamily -v ‘ ,cr , at church. • A woman, named Roddy, has been committed t o the county gaol of Meath, on charge of hav t en murdered her g niece. The body of- the Child , Avii was seven years o ld, was found buried in the g tr ddP ; and on inspecti on , th e atrocious iet appears to h - been nitrnotrntort byhil.,,mine, Alive. eanhouilsoe;